A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
53. _Contracting illegal Imprisonment from 1 day to a
Marriages._ (See ante, No. month, and condemnation to the
42.) public works.
54. _Servants_ receiving Corporal correction or
earnest, and engaging to serve imprisonment from 1 day to a
more masters than one, or month.
otherwise misbehaving.
55. _Masters_ giving Imprisonment from 1 day to a
servants a false character. month.
56. _Libels_ on another by Condemnation to the public
writings or disgraceful prints works; reserving the right to
or drawings, causing injury to recompence to the party wronged.
another. (See ante, No. 28.)
57. Distributing or publishing Condemnation to the public
Libels. works; reserving the right of
recompence to the party wronged.
58. _Actions_ by which Corporal correction.
danger by fire may be
occasioned; such as smoking
tobacco in a stable,
timber-yard, &c.
59. Acts of hasty petulance, Imprisonment various, or
leading to quarrels, assaults, condemnation to the public works.
and damages.
* * * * *
_Civil Offences that tend to the Corruption of Morals._
60. Wickedly insulting the Detention in the hospital destined
Supreme Being by words, deeds, for madmen; where the offender
or actions, in a public place, is to be treated like a man
or in the presence of another out of his senses, until his
person. amendment be perfect and assured.
61. Disturbing the exercise Imprisonment from 1 day to a
of Public Worship, &c. month; to be augmented by
fasting and corporal correction.
62. Writing or Preaching Pillory and Imprisonment,
against the Christian Religion, from 1 day to a month, or to a
and Catholick Faith, &c. &c. year.
Heresies, &c.
63. Committing indecencies Imprisonment from 1 day to a
in any public street or place. month, augmented by fasting.
64. Attempting to seduce or Imprisonment from 1 day to a
insult women of reputation, by month.
shameful debauchery, and using
gestures, or discourses,
tending to that purpose.
65. Carnal Commerce by Corporal Correction, and
Man with Beast, or with a condemnation to the public works;
person of the same and banishment from the place
sex,--_Sodomy_. where the offence has been
publicly scandalous.
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